The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


NEWARK Sunday Call: Messenger boys diary
Monday, hired; Tuesday. tired; Wednesday,
fred
THE trouble with lots of cats is that they don't
get enough dreamless sleep these November
nights.
THE Hon. George Bancroft is at present in
fair health, but his friends regretfully observe
that he has aged alarmingly during the past year
or two.
LIE GAULoIs of Paris has sufficiently vivid
imagination to draw parallel between Jeanne
d. Arc and Mr.. William O'Brien; for they both,
it says had their their clothes stolen by ia per-
fide Albion"
Mrs. GLIDER, the wife of the editor of the
Century, both paints and writes and in either
field she signs her work by her maiden name,
Helena DE Kay though always socially using
her husbands.
Mr. NATHANIEL CLAPP the inventor of alb
sorbent cotton, is eighty-fve years old He
lives with his wife and two sons at Dedham,
Mass. and devotes~ the robust energies of his
hale old age to the care of an extensive garden
and orchard
EPOCH: Amateur Actress (rehearsingl-''You
must not say exit when you retire from the
stage, Mr.. Sissy" Amateur Actor (triumphantly
showing her the bookl-''Thats what the book
says, Miss Gushington" Amateur Actress ICON
vincedl-"Why. it does"
Mrs. DINAH MULoCK-CRAIK was unique
among authors regards her habits of work.
She never began work for publication which
she did not finish before beginning another. 1t
is thought that she did not at her death leave
line of unfinished manuscript.
LORD LYONS, the English diplomatist who has
for so long time represented his country
minister to France. is teetotaller. The ''rari-
fed air" of diplomacy has never affected his
swerving devotion to coffee, water, tea and lem
onade. 1t is to be noted, however, that Lord
Lyon is at present teetotal wreck.
A PREACHER in Fleming county, Kentucky,
borrowed a suit of clothes to wear while baptiz-
ing convert. Somewhere in the suit there was
a deck of cards which the owner of the clothes
forgot to take out. and while the parson and his
convert were in the water the cards began to
float around them, to the anazement of the
spectators
THE first instalment of what will eventually
comprise another handsome and costly gift to
Stratford- on-Avon has just been received there.
1t consists of life-sze figure in bronze of
Prince Henry. afterward Henry V, who is in
the act or putting on the royal crown. The
figure forms of the Shakspearian group
which Lord Ronald Cover has offered topresent
to the town. The remaining figures will be
Lady Macbeth Hamlet and Falstaf. They
will be surnounted by bust of the poet.
II. e. KEMP, of Washington. has in his pos
session photograph which John Wilkes Booth
gave to his cousin. then young lady residing
in Washington. the very night Lincoln
assassinated. In pencil and in a very small
hand. Booth had written on the face of the card
at the bottom: u Wilkes Booth the Nations
avenger,' and on the back, also in pencil and
very small, these lines:
On thus be It when tyrants shall raise
1hair hands sacrilegions gainst nations devotion
Aud the that strikes let her histories praise
amphtantly snat Oh from oblvions ocean.
For several months Prof. Bell has been GO
ing deep into his researches the subject of
hereditary deafness He has conducted a
wonderfully large correspondence with people
in all parts of the world to hunt up every scn-
tlla of evidence necessary to trace out geneaio-
gies. He viii eventually make public his dis
cove7ies, showing hereditary deafness in the
same line of descent for 200 years. The Profess
sor has also constructed valuable machine for
talking with deaf mutes. 1t is something like
the Typewriter in theory having a keyboard
which turns up big plain letters in such way
as to construct word, and so facilitate CONVEX
sation.
PRINCE BISMARCK had just seated himself for
dinner and placed his spoon into the soup to be-
gin eating. the other day, when a telegram from
Berlin was handed to him 1.-THE message re-
quires an immediate reply" said he, excusing
himself to his guests But your soup will get
cold" suggested one of them. ''It is better it
should get cold than that Herbert should grow
hot" replied the Prince, loosely, referring to
his son, the sender of the message. HE is so
diligent about his work." continued the Prince,
me another telegram in few minutes much
more urgent than this. He is sumner at his
work. / tell you. Had / been like him when a
boy should have been very different man"
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX believes in prenatal
influence. She says she was made poet before
she was born by her mothers devotion to Lalla
Rookh at that period. She also believes in mir
rors, and never passes one without looking into
it, She says it is not vanity, but for reassur-
ance that no disaster has overtaken hustle,
plume, or collar since her last meeting with her
self. She always has a mirror before her when
writing. When she is brought up into corner
in composition, her swift upward glance invari
ably falls ON the little plush framed reflection of
herself, and Immediately the idea rhyme, word
or title is speared upon her impatient pen. She
always writes in rocker, lower from the table
than ordinary writers.
ACCORDING to the Boston Traveller, Secretary
Endicott sits behind his desk in the handsome
quarters in the War Department, with semi
military and semi judicial air upon his counte
nance. AS you enter. he glances up with a
quiet. had a-nice- dinner, dont-want-to ODE dis
turbed look upon his face If you are fortunate
enough to engage the attention of the great man,
he will talk to you with a slow. nicely modu-
lated voice: and dismiss you though you
one of his associates. Twice day there is
f1utter of excitement in the War Department.
These occasions are when the Secretary enters
are rung notifying the messengers and elevator
boys, that each time he is received ush-
cred out with ''all the honors of war" 1t is
worth a long walk in rainy day to witness this
circus.
THAT ALL.
We've won your suit" the lawyer said
And gleefully rubbed his pate.
"And what your charges, sirl" they said:
oil City Derrick.